Forum:Thoughts on chest farming

DoomsdayJesus 13:41, February 23, 2010 (UTC)

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I've come to realize several different sets of "morals" have been adopted by individual players, for instance, stances on modding. Some players will highly support modding, creating incendiary SMGs that have perfect accuracy, no recoil, x4.2 zoom, ammo regen, and the ability to shoot grenades, all for use in actual gameplay. Most of the people I've seen in the forums here will agree that this kind of practice is rather foolish, and has become a detriment to the online play. Another subject is the practice of duplicated items. I've seen people duplicate everything in their inventory, and yet, I have friends that will not accept items that had been duped at any point in the past, saying it exploits a glitch in the system. I have not heard much about farming, however. I think of the term "farming" to mean the practice of actively seeking out a specific loot source on a regular basis. This can mean farming bosses, or zones with high chest concentrations, or even just a particular chest. I'm not sure if the term has been used (by anyone other than myself) here before, but friends of mine have referred to the practice of "powerfarming". This consists of play sessions dominated by farming a particular source, exiting the game, reentering the game, farming again, exiting again, and so on. Some may see it as being on the level of duplicating items, or even modding. I will admit I myself have implement a form of this in the past, specifically, in the areas of New Haven, and Crimson Fastness. I've cut back recently, limiting myself to farming New Haven once during a play session. There have been times when I farmed New Haven five or six times in a session. Sometimes, I wouldn't even leave New Haven. So by now, I have cut back, and gone back into other areas. Now, I sometimes even forget to go through New Haven. So now, I ask what your thoughts on these practices are, especially powerfarming. What is your stance? - ( talk · contribs ) 16:30, February 22, 2010 (UTC)

Farming chests is as legit as farming enemies or bosses. They respawn for a reason. There is no glitch being exploited. There is no overt modding of the game. You are simply doing legwork for a reward. A reward that is usually quite worthless I might add. Now farming the high level chests in New Haven is something else altogether since it doesn't really seem normal for them to be that high a level. I say you get one run at those and then you drop it since the chest levels look like a mistake.

I feel Gearbox actually set up New Haven to be farmed. Why else would they include so many chests? Not to mention most of the "in the wild" chests aren't too far away from a New-U station. Furiant 17:37, February 22, 2010 (UTC)

I don't have a problem with farming. I've done PT's hitting chests just once and have also spent hours just farming. I believe that Gearbox did mean for the chests to be farmed (though maybe not for hours-n-hours). It's an easy programming task to track which chests have been "opened" just as it tracks which missions/challenges that have been "completed". It could be that Gearbox made that conscious decision so that trophy hunters would have something to do and feel that they were getting their money's worth. MeMadeIt 21:47, February 22, 2010 (UTC)

I feel that farming adds something that will keep people playing. Game developers strive hard to make a game that you'll want to play over and this just adds a great amount of longevity to an awesome game. I've farmed for hours on end and I find it just as rewarding as the game play itself. Trying to find that rare Ogre keeps me going. DoomsdayJesus 13:41, February 23, 2010 (UTC)

Well, it won't be as effective anymore, at least not in New Haven. The new patch really did a number on the kind of loot you can find there. You can still find some good stuff, but not nearly as great as before. I'm looking forward to enjoying some new weapons in Knoxx! -- greenbrooms

New patch? PC only? --Azuarc 14:01, February 23, 2010 (UTC)